woodcut
Americannoun
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a block of wood cut along the grain and with a design, illustration, etc, incised with a knife, from which prints are made
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a print from a woodcut
Etymology
Origin of woodcut
Vocabulary lists containing woodcut
Visual Arts - Introductory
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Visual Arts - High School
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Since we’re on the subject of LACMA: Times art critic Christopher Knight reports that, despite its dry-sounding name, “The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy” is “ground-breaking” and “lucidly organized.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2018
The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy Major exhibition of rare woodcuts, plus related drawings, engravings, and sculptures.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2018
Meantime the U.S. went ahead with innumerable adjustments to wartime living: Woodcut.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Handsome Volume, consisting of 840 closely printed pages, containing about 400 Woodcut Illustrations of various sizes, bound in extra cloth, coloured edges.
From Macmillan & Co.'s Catalogue. April 1888 Works in Belles Lettres, including Poetry, Fiction, etc. by Macmillan & Co.
New Edition, revised and corrected to the Present Time; with above 600 Woodcut Illustrations, including 20 Subjects now added from Designs by John Leech.
From First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 by Trotter, Isabella Strange
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